Symptoms:

After starting Users, AppLoader is not showing any rUsers as available to start a load test.

AppLoader Image:

rUserManager Image:

Notice the users are connected, but listed in light blue. This indicates that rUserManager could not recognize the status of VStation, whether it is running or not. The rUser will display in green if the connection is successful and VStation is running.

ruser001.log in the injector machine has the following lines:

[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Starting Player Thread[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Starting Receiver Thread[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Component: PLAYER --- Waiting for the receiver to be ready[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:9008[Date & Time Stamp] [Thread #] Error: socket connect failed with Sockets Error Code: 10061

Cause:

The Injector application can not communicate with the users. The main reason is that the VStations are not able to open a connection to the port indicated in the vstation.ini to communicate with the Injector process

Fix:

The fix is to open any port on the machine and dedicate it to the Injector-VStation communication. The default port is 9008, but any TCP Port value is ok as long as it is open on the server.

Ask the security team in your company to open one port on the server, and use that in vstation.ini:

//The port number that the injector will listed on Default is 9008injectorlistenport=9008